36 min listen
Religion as a Tactic of Governance
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Jan 23, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Naomi Goldenberg argues that 'religion', as a separate sphere from governance, has been projected onto the past for strategic purposes. How does viewing religions as "restive once-and-future governments" help us understand the functioning of this category in contemporary discourse?
Released:
Jan 23, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Indian Rationalism, and a Relational Approach to Nonreligion: It is unfortunate fact that in popular ‘Western’ imagination, the land of India is frequently orientalised, and naively conceptualized as ‘the quintessential land of religion, spirituality, and miracles.’ Although we would certainly not want to complet... by The Religious Studies Project